OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JUN 21, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Bishop Marin Barisic, auxiliary of the archdiocese of Split-Makarska (area 4,088, population 472,088, Catholics 412,261, priests 360, religious 716), Croatia, as archbishop of the same archdiocese. The archbishop-elect was born in Vidonje in 1947, ordained a priest in 1974 and consecrated a bishop in 1993. He succeeds Archbishop Ante Juric, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese, the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

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